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Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

By: Amber M. VanDerwarker

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Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

By: Amber M. VanDerwarker

The Olmec who anciently inhabited Mexico's southern Gulf Coast organized their once-egalitarian society into chiefdoms during the Formative period (1400 BC to AD 300). This increase in political complexity coincided with the development of village agriculture, which has led scholars to theorize that agricultural surpluses gave aspiring Olmec leaders control over vital resources and thus a power base on which to build authority and exact tribute. In this book, Amber VanDerwarker conducts the first multidisciplinary analysis of subsistence patterns at two Olmec settlements to offer a fuller understanding of how the development of political complexity was tied to both agricultural practices and environmental factors. She uses plant and animal remains, as well as isotopic data, to trace the intensification of maize agriculture during the Late Formative period. She also examines how volcanic eruptions in the region affected subsistence practices and settlement patterns. Through these multiple sets of data, VanDerwarker presents convincing evidence that Olmec and epi-Olmec lifeways of farming, hunting, and fishing were driven by both political and environmental pressures and that the rise of institutionalized leadership must be understood within the ecological context in which it occurred.

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By: Amber M. VanDerwarker

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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

By: Amber VanDerwarker,Tanya M. Peres

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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

By: Amber VanDerwarker,Tanya M. Peres

In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and even fewer attempts to quantitatively integrate these two types of subsistence evidence. Given the vastly different methods used in recovering and quantifying these data, not to mention their different preservational histories, it is no wonder that so few have undertaken this problem. Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany takes the lead in tackling this important issue by addressing the methodological limitations of data integration, proposing new methods and innovative ways of using established methods, and highlighting case studies that successfully employ these methods to shed new light on ancient foodways. The volume challenges the perception that plant and animal foodways are distinct and contends that the separation of the analysis of archaeological plant and animal remains sets up a false dichotomy between these portions of the diet. In advocating qualitative and quantitative data integration, the volume establishes a clear set of methods for (1) determining the suitability of data integration in any particular case, and (2) carrying out an integrated qualitative or quantitative approach.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441909354

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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

By: Amber VanDerwarker,Tanya M. Peres

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A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

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Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

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